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April 2009 New Architects for Tehachapi Hospital are Selected. Tehachapi's bumpy road toward the construction of a new hospital to replace the old one took on renewed vigor April 23 with the announcement that the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District has selected and signed an architect for the project. “As of today at 4 o'clock, we have hired an architectural engineer,” Project Manager Norm Clendenin told the crowd gathered at Don Juan's Grill for a bond campaign kick-off event hosted by the boards of the healthcare district and the Tehachapi Hospital Foundation. The hiring of an architect is a significant step in a process that is moving toward Jan. 1, 2013, when state seismic requirements will close the doors of the existing building. To read more of the Tehachapi News Article SWA Architects Get to know our new architects. You can view their completed projects and visit their website by clicking here November 2008 One Step Closer with Completed Space Programming A new Tehachapi hospital came several steps closer to reality with the presentation March 18 of a proposed $67 million, 65,909-square-foot master space plan. Hospital Project Executive Manager Norm Clendenin told the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District Board of Directors that the $67 million preliminary project budget amounts to about $720 a square foot and includes contingencies. “I'm suggesting that's about as tight as we can get,” Clendenin said. He said the target date for license approval and to welcome the hospital's first patients is January 2013. Stephen Wen, AIA, senior principal in SWA Architects of Pasadena and Phoenix, presented the space plan, which is an outline of the overall traffic flow and placement of the elements of the hospital. “There is no fat in this program,” Wen said. “It is pure muscle, pure functional.” To read more of the Tehachapi News Article One of the highest priorities for the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District is to assure continued quality medical care in Tehachapi in the coming years. For this reason, the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District and the Tehachapi Hospital Foundation are asking for support from the community to build a new hospital facility. The present building has been determined to not meet the California Seismic Safety Standards that go into effect on January 1, 2008. If nothing is done, according to current California State law, it is possible that we could lose our hospital by that date. |
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